‘Star Trek’: The numbers; the missing reviews

Like everyone else, I saw “Star Trek” over the weekend. More on that later. But first a few housekeeping items:

• The Enterprise’s latest big adventure broke the franchise’s box-office record for opening weekend, bringing in an estimated $76.5 million, counting the Thursday night screenings. This is more than $20 million higher than any previous “Star Trek” movie, even adjusted for inflation.

This was not a foregone conclusion. As Box Office Mojo points out, the last “Star Trek” movie, “Nemesis” (2002), bombed. And the weekend wasn’t a cinch either, despite the fact that “Star Trek” pretty much had the marketplace to itself. “TreK” was sandwiched between two franchises with better recent track records (“X-Men Origins” and “Angels and Demons”). Remember “Speed Racer”? Squeezed betweeen “Iron Man” and “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,” it was one of the last summer’s biggest flops.